Ghost Cat

We recently catalogued several photograph albums from Vince McMinn of Wellington who was an amateur radio enthusiast in the 1930s.

This photograph really caught our imagination. What at first looks like a ‘ghost cat’ is actually a bit of simple trick photography. One negative was laid over the top of the other during processing. So a negative of a cat was laid over the negative of the man in the room, creating a ghost like image of the cat.